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Macon Outreach Worship Service
December 11 | 10 am
Join us for a special worship service with Macon Outreach clients in the church sanctuary on Wednesday, December 11, at 10:00 a.m! After this meaningful time of song and Scripture, we will move downstairs to the Outreach dining room for a special holiday meal at 11:00! We hope many Mulberry members will be able to attend this special feast!
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Second Sunday Lunch & Caroling
December 8 | 12 pm
For our December lunch, we will have our usual potluck and then after we eat, we will go caroling at several local nursing homes again this year! Come spread holiday cheer with this fun tradition!
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Wesley Glen Christmas at the Cross
December 6-8
Wesley Glen is hosting their 3rd annual Christmas at the Cross event! This is a free community event with a beautiful, mile-long light display. Learn more at wesleyglenministries.com.
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Advent Study Sunday School
Mustard Seed Classroom | 10 am
Gregory Bushway is leading an Advent study on Sundays during the Sunday School hour, beginning December 1. We’ll meet in the Mustard Seed classroom — everyone is welcome to join!
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Children's Center 20/205 Fundraising Challenge
We're three months into this school year at The Children's Center at Mulberry, and things keep getting more and more exciting! Most recently, a small group of loyal CCM supporters came together and committed to give $100 for every donor who sets up a new recurring donation of at least $25/month for 2025, and this group pledged to give up to $10,000 in the challenge! Talk about exciting! We're calling this our "25/2025 Challenge" and ask you to join our growing list of supporters setting up their monthly gifts for 2025.
Read the full letter from the CCM Board to learn more about the challenge.
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Macon Outreach Fall Campaign
The annual fall fund-raising drive to help finance our church’s historic outreach ministry was kicked off November 24. Giving envelopes are in the mail, and we hope you will give generously to help us feed, cloth and comfort the working poor and homeless who cross our doorsteps daily. You can return the envelope, use the QR code or just put a check to “Macon Outreach” in the offering plate.
Jesus said, “ Whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for Me.” (Matthew 25:40)
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A Bicentennial Moment
In anticipation of Mulberry’s upcoming Bicentennial Celebration in 2026, the Leonard Hill Cochran Historical Room presents a moment of Mulberry history.
On Sunday, July 13, 1930, the Board of Stewards appointed a committee of R. L. McKenney, Chairman, W. R. Rogers, Jr., J. D. Riley, H. Persons Heath and Dana H. Adams to enter a protest to the Committee from the City Council against the erection of a master service station on the corner of First and Mulberry Streets, just across First Street from our main auditorium. The Board was requested to go in a body to also enter protest at the next meeting of City Council.
On August 20, 1930, the Board of Stewards received a report from the committee to register complaint to the City Council for the erection of a Master Service Station from Chairman R. L. McKenney that stated “the Council turned a deaf ear to our complaints and granted, by unanimous vote, to allow the Firestone people to erect the station.
Then by a formal motion, the Board passed a resolution to employ as counsel, Park & Strozier, to file an injunction proceedings against the Firestone people to prevent the erection of this master service station at this point so near our church, with the firm belief that such a plant there would prove a nuisance and interrupt our church work. A motion was also made and carried that both the Chairman of the Special Committee and the Chairman of the Board, write directly to Mr. Harvey Firestone declaring our opposition to the erection of this station and plainly stating our position in this matter.”
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Weekly Prayers & Scripture | |
Over the next year, we will include weekly prayers and Scripture readings in the newsletter for you to enjoy during personal devotional times! These are taken from The Methodist Book of Daily Prayer, a new prayerbook that features readings and prayers drawn from familiar historic, classic, and ancient Christian texts, and from Methodism’s rich hymnody. We hope that these prayers and readings will help you grow deeper in your connection to God! | |
Week 2: Peace
Day 1. Isaiah 9:6 (Morning), Luke 1:79 (Evening)
Day 2. Psalm 29:11 (Morning), John 14:27 (Evening)
Day 3. Psalm 85:10 (Morning), Isaiah 9:7 (Evening)
Day 4. Luke 2:14 (Morning), Psalm 122:6-7 (Evening)
Day 5. John 14:27 (Morning), Isaiah 55:12 (Evening)
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Morning Prayer of Petition
Holy God, your son is called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace. Today I pray for peace, plead for peace, and ask you to fill the places in my life and in our world that need your peace:
I pray for peace in my inner spirit where I am distracted and anxious. I pray for peace in my relationships with family, friends, coworkers, neighbors. I pray for peace in my community, city, and country where divisiveness seems to reign. I pray for peace among people globally, especially where conflict and war are an expected way of life.
As we prepare to celebrate the coming of your son into the world, may the peace He embodies and offers be made real on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.
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Evening Prayer of Gratitude
Gracious God, as I look back on this day, it is too easy to focus on places of discord and division. Instead, I give you thanks for the ways you are working in my life for peace and wholeness. Today God, I thank you for:
- the ways you are working to bring peace to my emotional and mental being
- the way you are working my relationships, especially those that are strained or fractured,
- the ways you are offering a picture of peace in my church or community.
As I rest and look forward to a new day tomorrow, may I have the eyes to see where you are at work for peace in the wold, and may I have the courage to join you in that work. Amen.
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Macon Outreach Needs
Financial Donations
Plastic Bags
Cereal
Hamburger helper
Cornbread mix
Condiments
Cake/cookie/muffin mix
Snack items
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Daybreak Needs
Volunteers
Canned or fresh fruit, fruit cups
Applesauce (individual containers)
Cereal
Jelly
Vienna Sausage (4.6 oz)
Coffee
1 min. Instant grits
Brown paper snack bags
Sandwich bags - Quart size
Chips (Individual bags)
Tylenol/Advil/Ibuprofen
Orajel
Cough Medicine (non-alcohol)
Cough drops
Bio Freeze/Muscle cream
Aspirin 81 mg
Disinfectant Spray/Air freshener
Disinfectant Cleanser (Pine-sol)
Liquid Detergent
Vinegar
Men's T-shirts (white, L-XL-2X)
Men's & Women's underwear (new)
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South Georgia Advocate
The South Georgia Advocate, a twice monthly online news publication, is the official news source of the South Georgia Annual Conference and a ministry of the Office of Connectional Ministries.
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One Matters Resource Toolkit
As part of this year's conference focus of "One Matters", the South Georgia Conference is providing monthly resources designed to empower each of us in our mission of making meaningful connections and living out transformative discipleship. Each toolkit presents a challenge questions & resources tailored to address that challenge.
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